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pairs, excepting during the 

 breeding season, and very rarely 

 in threes or fours. I once ob 

 served three thus spending a 

 winter morning in company, 

 upon a small glacier lake, on 

 the Upper Merced, 

 about 7500feetabove 

 the level of the sea. 

 Astormhadoccurred 

 during the night, 

 but the morning sun 

 shoneunclouded,and 

 the shadowy lake, 

 gleaming darkly in 

 its setting of fresh 

 snow, lay smooth 

 and motionless as a 

 mirror. My camp 

 chanced to be within 

 a few feet of the 



water's edge, opposite a fallen pine, some of the 

 branches of which leaned out over the lake. Here 



ONE OF THE LATE-SUMMER FEEDING- 

 GROUNDS OF THE OUZEL. 



